Like most if not all of you (especially if you are in the UK) the last few weeks have been a bit of an adventure with the snow. Buses off, trains off roads closed, schools closed and the daily complaints on the media from the public. I need to point out - it is winter and winter weather should be expected. There seems to have developed over time an attitude that irrespective of the season or conditions that we should be able to get to work, or drive the way we do in the middle of summer, or take the usual length of time to get anywhere. I am old enough to remember some bad winters years ago (but not that many years ago!) as winter approached you got prepared and you coped, getting on with things as best as you can and understanding that some things wouldn’t happen due to the weather, that some things would be delayed or even shut – but that’s what happens in extreme conditions – I remember in our first flat half inch (15mm) of ice on the inside of the living room window - for days. I wonder if we have gotten too comfortable so that when the unpredictable comes along we don’t know how to deal with it. Some people do it with religion – they know it’s there but they don’t want it to interfere with their daily routine. But when life conditions become more extreme they are crying out for help. Perhaps just like in our lives we need to be prepared for the seasons of life, sun screen for the summer, salt and grit for the winter. But to prepare for the seasons of life we need to be regularly and routinely connected to the one who promises to give us all we need to cope and overcome – for he has overcome the world, for us.